Books for Khetri: Putting Learning Material in Every Child’s Hands

Adhana Group’s annual book distribution programme in Khetri, Jhunjhunu, equips government schools with textbooks, notebooks, and stationery, ensuring no child is held back by a lack of access.

Every academic year, our CSR team in Khetri, Jhunjhunu, identifies government schools that face acute shortages of textbooks and learning materials. For many children, the start of a school year is decided by the simple question, “Do my parents have the money for books this year?” Adhana Group exists, in part, to make sure that question is never the reason a child stops learning.

Through our annual book distribution programme, we provide class-wise textbook sets, NCERT reference books, notebooks, stationery kits, and curated story-book libraries. The libraries stay inside the school reading rooms, so every successive batch of students benefits, not just the children present on the day of distribution.

The impact has been deeply moving. Teachers in Khetri tell us that attendance climbs in the weeks after a distribution drive. Children who would otherwise share a single book between three friends now have their own. Parents, especially mothers, show up to thank our team, often after walking several kilometres from neighbouring villages.

This is the philosophy of Adhana Group in action. ‘We Make a Difference’ is not a slogan we put on a website; it is a calendar of work that we honour every year, in the villages that shaped our founder, Sumer Singh Adhana, and his father, Shri Gangaram Adhana.

We work hand in hand with school principals, local educators, and Gram Panchayats to plan distribution, track learning outcomes over subsequent terms, and identify the next set of schools that need support.

If you would like to contribute to any of these projects as a volunteer, partner or donor, we’d love to hear from you.

Write to us at info@adhanagroup.com or call +971 5 42 185352.

Together, we Make a Difference.